Pinback button for the Kansas City Monarchs: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

Kansas City Monarchs button with metal pin back. The front of the button has a white background with a blue line drawing of a baseball and two crossed baseball bats at top with shading at the bottom. There is blue text at the center that reads "KANSAS CITY MONARCHS."

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1920 - 1965
• Manufactured by: Unidentified
• Subject of: Kansas City Monarchs, American, 1920 - 1965
• Type: buttons (information artifacts)
• Medium: ink, metal and plastic
• Dimensions: Diameter: 1 3/8 × 1/4 in. (3.5 × 0.6 cm)
• Place depicted: Kansas City, Missouri, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Baseball
• Topic: Segregation
• Topic: Sports
• Object number: 2013.171.7
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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